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Now in its 16th year, the Mark O. Hatfield Distinguished Historians Forum provides broad insights and perspectives on United States history. Each series brings together the nation’s top scholars and writers for thought-provoking evenings of history. Most featured lecturers have won a Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award for their writing, and many are among the most revered academicians in the nation.

The 2014 series features:

H.W. Brands, author of The Man Who Saved the Union, biography of Ulysses S. Grant, March 4, 2014

Lynne Olsen, author of Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941, April 15, 2014

Senator Olympia Snowe, Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress, April 29, 2014

Frederik Logevall, author of Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, May 13, 2014